Akdong Musician's Lee Su-hyun on 30 kg weight loss: 'Bone-skinny' is not a compliment to me

Lee Su-hyun of the sibling duo Akdong Musician has opened up about feelings on the weight-loss journey.

A video titled "Asking Akdong Musician's Suhyun if moles are her thing too" was uploaded Thursday to the YouTube channel Charlesentertainment.

In the video, when asked whether she was still dieting, Lee said, "I'm still trying to, but it isn't easy. I'm tired of watching what I eat and exercising."

Lee then said losing weight was not the point in itself. "What I needed was to build willpower and go through the process of taking care of myself. The result of that was losing 30 kilograms," Lee said, adding that speculation Lee had used the weight-loss drug Wegovy felt deeply unfair. "It was a reward for all the time I had spent working and refining myself, and then people were talking as if I had used Wegovy."

Lee went on to say that denying Wegovy use only created another problem. "If I say I didn't use Wegovy, people say, 'So are you saying people who did use it had it easy?' That's not what I mean at all," Lee added.

Lee said the term "bone-skinny," a Korean slang expression for an extremely thin physique, is strongly disliked. "It is absolutely not the look I'm going for. I don't want to be that," Lee said. "It's not that I think people who do pursue that look aren't pretty — it's just that for me, looking healthy means being somewhere in the mid-50-kilogram range."

Lee then said that after losing 30 kilograms, the word kept appearing as a keyword attached to social media posts and news articles. "To me, that is not a compliment, and it was never something I wanted to become in the first place. I do strength training specifically so I don't end up looking that way," Lee said.